The commercial and operational practices of the oil and gas industry pose unique challenges to accountants who need to operate under multiple reporting frameworks with conflicting accounting methods and with unique contractual arrangements such as production sharing contracts and joint venture arrangements. This four-day course focuses on the accounting issues currently faced by the upstream oil and gas with an emphasis on operations under Production Sharing Contracts. It is intended to provide an in depth look at the accounting for these unique arrangements and helps you and your team put them into practice.

Specific areas treated include:

Property, plant and equipment

Intangibles and in particular exploration and evaluation activities

Oil and gas reserves

The challenges posed by impairment reviews

Provisions, particularly decommissioning costs

Joint venture and production sharing agreements

Financial instruments and application of hedge accounting treatments

This course is kept up to date with developments in best practices and evolution of accounting standards.

This four-day course focuses on the accounting issues currently faced by the upstream oil and gas with an emphasis on operations under Production Sharing Contracts. It considers the accounting and financial reporting implications of all the main transactions undertaken in the upstream business, including cost allocation and capitalisation, revenue allocation and the accounting issues faced by joint venture operations and operators of concessions and PSC’s. The course considers both internal accounting issues and financial reporting under US GAAP and IFRS frameworks.

The course will include a wide range of learning and development approaches including:

The traineris an accounting and finance professional with nearly thirty years’ experience. For the past twenty years he has specialised in consulting and the delivery of in- house and public financial training delivering programmes in accounting and financial management. During this time he has worked across many sectors and in many countries.

Within the oil, gas and petrochemicals sector he has worked on accounting and performance issues with finance teams from Shell, Saudi Aramco, Tyumen Oil, DuPont and British Gas.

Previously as a senior consultant with PwC he led a team of financial training consultants responsible for developing and delivering programmes in financial management, accounting and shareholder value.

He started his career at PwC, where he worked for eight years in London in their audit and business advisory division where he obtained his chartered accountancy qualification. After qualifying he was seconded for two years to their Paris office. On his return to London from Paris he co-founded the client training business for PwC in London. The trainer now runs a successful financial training company based in the UK and splits his time between managing that business and instructing on Oil & Gas Accounting and IFRS.

The trainer is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, a member of their finance and management faculty and has an Honours Degree in Economics from BristolUniversity.

“The trainer’s training is a big help in identifying the issues to focus on for the coming year!”

– Head of Financial Reporting, an E&P Company in Southeast Asia

“The trainer’s is not only an excellent presenter with comprehensive knowledge in the area of oil & gas accounting, but he has a very detailed understanding in both US GAAP and IFRS. I will definately consider more courses with the trainer in the future”

– Head of Accounting, TAQA, UAE

“A well-organized training. The trainer is a good teacher who presents in-depth materials and concrete examples with easy to understand English for full understanding of what was being presented”

– Finance & Account Manager, Damagix Nigeria Ltd

“Once again, The trainer’s presentation style and good use of case studies was very well received by our accounts staff”

– Accounts Manager, Rak Petroleum

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Who Should Attend

The course will be of benefit to all finance and accounting professionals who require an in depth understanding of oil and gas accounting procedures including those involved in the preparation, audit or analysis of oil and gas accounts.